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Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island)

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The author gives you a real feeling for the lives women emigrating from German speaking countries. It is very informative and quite a good reference. I found it somewhat difficult reading because of the numerous citations and language style.

Very good if you want to find out about the experiences of the German speaking immigrant woman.

I was searching for information that might give me some insight into the lifestyle, customs and feelings of my female German ancestors who settled in south west Illinois in the mid nineteenth century. I found the book "Contented Among Strangers" by Linda Schelbitzki Pickle to be a great help to me. I recommend it to other genealogists with German ancestry who want to understand more about their female ancestors than just names and dates on a chart.

This is an excellent book! Not only for genealogists, but for anyone wanting a glimpse into the real lives of immigrant women. German women are the subject, but their experiences allow us to see into the feelings of anyone leaving their homeland forever. Some of the experiences of these women read as smoothly as the best fiction writer in spite of numerous references which lend credibility. I highly recommend this book.